Diplomat and husband held by police over double-fatal restaurant shooting

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The diplomatic service usually attract some of the better quality people.
For this to happen says a lot about a country that give thousands of scholarships to people from that place (at the expense of their own people).

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Diplomatic immunity: husband and wife accused of murder flown back to China after Philipines shootings

Chinese couple with diplomatic immunity flown to Xiamen to face trial

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 25 October, 2015, 3:59am
UPDATED : Sunday, 25 October, 2015, 9:45am

Associated Press in Manila

Guo Jing (left) and husband Li Qingliang (right). Photo: SMP Pictures

A Chinese consular officer and her husband, who allegedly killed two other Chinese diplomats and wounded their consul-general in a Philippine city, have been taken back to China where they will be tried, officials said yesterday.

Philippine police turned over the couple to Chinese authorities, who flew them to Xiamen , Fujian province on a chartered flight on Friday, two days after the fatal shooting at a restaurant, Foreign Affairs spokesman Charles Jose said.

Police say the consul's husband has been accused of killing diplomats Sun Shan and Li Hui and wounding consul-general Song Ronghua on Wednesday at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Cebu, where China had established a consulate.

Jose said the Chinese government had invoked diplomatic immunity for the couple under the 1961 Vienna Convention and a 2009 bilateral accord between Beijing and Manila.

An investigator marks the crime scene where the two people were killed inside the Lighthouse Restaurant. Photo: AP

"They will be tried under Chinese law," Jose said. "They [Chinese authorities] asked for help, so the evidence obtained by [the Philippine police] will be shared with them."

Regional police director chief superintendent Prudencio Tom Banas said the couple had not issued any statement that could explain the motive for the shooting partly because they could not speak English. The victims and the suspects were attending a birthday lunch in a private room at the restaurant when the shooting occurred, Banas said.

Police senior superintendent Rey Lyndon Lawas said one of the restaurant staff heard arguments "over financial matters," before shots were fired.

According to a Wechat message post by a friend of Song's, the diplomat said he was trying to stop the shooter and was hit by two bullets.

"Thank you all for your love and blessings," Song was quoted as saying.

China has previously insisted on trying its citizens accused of crimes in other countries.

In July, 1982, Tang Jiansheng, a translator at the Chinese embassy in Maputo, Mozambique, killed nine staff with a gun within the embassy compound.

Tang was deported to China and executed.